Kim Jong Un watches new mass games

North Korea has staged a new version of its mass games show to mark the 75th anniversary of its ruling Workers' Party.

Leader Kim Jong Un appeared at Pyongyang's massive May Day Stadium on Sunday night, the usual venue, to watch the new version of the performance called "Great Guidance" according to video shown by state television Monday.

The spectacle features thousands of performers, many of them young people, taking part in coordinated dance and gymnastic displays.

North Korea imported this kind of mass performance from fraternal socialist countries during Soviet times, and then amplified it.

The latest run of mass games performances started in 2002 with a show called "Arirang" named after a folk song popular in both North and South Korea.

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